Meditarch Supplement 7 (2011): Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, Volume 3

This volume presents and analyses the 11 tonnes of plain-ware pottery from the Housing Insula (Heather Jackson), as well as all the imported wares (John Tidmarsh and HeatherJackson) from throughout Jebel Khalid, on the Syrian Euphrates, excavated over the two decades 1986–2006.

Heather Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne.

Dr John Tidmarsh is a specialist in the Hellenistic period, with extensive archaeological experience especially at Pella in Jordan and Jebel Khalid in Syria. He is currently President of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation University of Sydney.

1: The Common Wares from the Housing Insula
Heather Jackson
2: Finding the Clay Fingerprint: Geochemical Characteristics of Jebel Khalid Pottery Clays
David Garnett and Heather Jackson
3: The Imported Fine Wares at Jebel Khalid
John Tidmarsch
4: The Green-Glazed Wares from Jebel Khalid, 1986-2006
Heather Jackson
5: Life in the Housing Insula: The Evidence of the Pottery
Heather Jackson

‘Jebel Khalid … has not slotted easily into existing historical narratives – but, following two decades of excavation by an Australian team, a variety of evidence has been unearthed. The site is an important one, particularly as it is usually presumed to represent a Hellenistic settlement unmarred by later occupation. We must be grateful for this publication: not only does it publish part of an important corpus of data, making accessible the work from 1986 to 2006, but it also makes available a part of the ancient world which is unlikely to be accessible to foreign archaeologists for some time.’
J. A. Baird   Journal of Roman Archaeology

'Jackson and Tidmarsh provide a clear and full picture of the material correlates of life in a provincial city of the Seleucid empire. It is not a volume of answers but something much better: a volume of testimony, painstakingly gathered, studied, defined and described, filled with information and ideas that can inspire and help address a host of questions. Historians of the Hellenistic world, take note.'
Andrea M. Berlin   Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Format: hardback
626 pages
Copyright: © 2011
ISBN: 9780958026536
Publication: 01 Dec 2011